Dune Page #12

JESSICA:

(starting to cry)

A million deaths are not enough for

Yueh...

PAUL:

(inner voice)(reacting to his

mother's tears)

Where are my feelings... I feel for no

one...

138. EXT. ROCK - DESERT - NIGHT

Paul and Jessica running. Paul pulls Jessica to a

place in the wall where a small overhang offers

shelter. Jessica falls to the ground. She CRIES,

pouring out her grief, but soon the sound of it is

carried away by the building rush of WIND. Paul

turns and looks out to the open desert, this portion

of which is a dust ocean.

138A. PAUL'S POV:

The Mouse Moon has risen.

Ripples of dust undulate tide-like in the light of

the moon. The WHISPERING grains billow up like the

foam of waves as they hit the rock.

138. BACK TO SCENE

Paul turns, his face illuminated by the two moons

above. His eyes lock on the moon which has the

image of the mouse.

--

PAUL:

(inner voice)

The second moon... from the dreams...

138B. INT. PAUL'S EYE - NIGHT

We move into Paul's eye, where the mouse moon appear

and revolves slowly. The moon begins to explode.

The pieces of the moon soar toward us burning with

white-hot flames. Within the flames we see...

139. (Deleted)

139A. EXT. ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT

... the burning Palace of Arrakeen. We move closer

to it.

189B. INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - ARRAKEEN PALACE - NIGHT

We then see Duke Leto's face. The Baron leans over

the Duke and clutches the skin on the Duke's face.

He begins pulling it. The skin on the Duke's race

slowly rips open -- making a hideous tearing SOUND.

Black SMOKE issues forth from the hole which teats

larger.

PAUL (V.O.)

(distorted)

House Atreides is ruined.

(less distorted)

This moon holds my past.

139C. INT. VESTIBULE - OBSERVATION ROOM - NIGHT

Inside and through the SMOKE Paul sees Feyd tear the

Red Duke insignia off his father's uniform. He sees

Feyd laughing. The moving, now-brilliant red hawk

insignia becomes...

139D. EXT. CASTLE CALADAN - NIGHT

... a burning meteor ROARING over the castle on

Caladan. The meteor crashes in the black sea.

PAUL (V.O.)

This moon holds my future.

--

139E. INT. WATER - NIGHT

Foaming confusion turning into a small, twisting

fetus under the sea. Its eyes closed. Moving close

to it, its eyes snap open. Through the eyes is the

pale white face of JESSICA.

139F. EXT. SHIELD WALL - DESERT - NIGHT

There is a huge soaring WIND sound and beyond

JESSICA the dunes roll like ocean waves.

139G. EXT. MOUSE MOON - NIGHT

The moon continues to spew out pieces of moving

images which are seen then disappear as fast as

sparks. The broken, burning pieces float eerily

toward us over the undulating dunes below. One

image floats closer. It is a hand folded into a

fist.

PAUL (V.O.)

I am only a seed...

The fist begins to open.

DUKE LETO (V.O.)

The seed must grow.

The hand opens fully with slow blue fluid pulsating

out the very center of the palm. The hand floats

eerily forward.

DUKE LETO (V.O.)

The sleeper must awaken.

139H. EXT. WATER - NIGHT

The last image which passes is foaming and spitting

dark blue water. As the image passes, the black

smoke trailing behind it obscures the picture to

blackness.

140. EXT. ROCK - DESERT - NIGHT

Through the darkness we move to Paul's clenched

hand. It opens, revealing the signet ring in the

very center of his palm. Paul looks upward to the

moons of Arrakis. He looks back to the ring, then

to his mother.

PAUL:

Listen to me!... you wanted to know about

my dreams... and I've just had a waking

dream... do you know why?...

--

JESSICA:

Calm yourself/

PAUL:

The spice! It's in everything here. The

air, the soil, the food... It's like the

Truthsayer drug..... It's a poison!!!!

You knew the spice would change me. But

thanks to your teachings it's changed my

consciousness. I can see it... I can see

it.

JESSICA:

(inner voice)

Is he....?

PAUL:

You carry my unborn sister in your womb!

JESSICA:

(inner voice)

He knows.

PAUL:

You and your Bene Gesserit sisterhood...

I'm not your Kwisatz Haderach... I'm

something different, something unexpected!

(inner voice)

I'm a seed.

(out load)

I am so much more... You don't begin to

know me...

141. through 142A. (Deleted)

142B. EXT. ROCK - DESERT - NIGHT

Paul's head goes down. He places the ring on his

finger.

PAUL:

(inner voice)

Father... now I have become a killer and I

will continue to kill until I have avenged

your death.

(out loud)

Father!

Jessica cries as she stares at her son.

143. through 143A. (Deleted)

--

145. BACK TO SCENE

Rabban stops up the ramp. He wears a large smile.

His thick head sweats and sweat runs down his thick

neck. He goes inside and the doors swing closed.

146. INT. HARKONNEN SHIP - NIGHT

He enters the ship and moves down within to the

Baron's headquarters, passing two dwarves cooking a

dead legless cow which hangs from chains. Rabban

tears out the cow's tongue and eats it. Then he

exits through a door which closes behind him.

147. INT. BARON'S QUARTERS - HARKONNEN SHIP - NIGHT

The Baron is flying wildly, circling the outside of

a large steel shower, while Nefud and a DWARF play a

strange instrument producing maniacal, perverse,

screaming MUSIC. The Baron SEES Rabban enter, but

continues to fly around the shower.

BARON:

(very excited)

Rabban!!... we're knee deep in Atreides

blood! We've gutted them. We've gutted

them!

(laughs)

The Baron floats to Rabban and begins lovingly

massaging Rabban's massive neck as he speaks to him.

BARON:

Rabban, Rabban... I place you in charge

of Arrakis. It's yours to squeeze, as I

promised. I want you to squeeze and

squeeze and squeeze.

(massaging in rhythm)

Give me spice! Drive them into utter

submission. You must not show the

slightest pity or mercy... as only you

can... Never stop!

(releasing him)

Go.... Show no mercy!

RABBAN:

Yes, my lord Baron.

Rabban leaves just as Feyd steps out of the shower.

The Baron turns to him lovingly.

--

BARON:

(to Feyd)

And when we've crushed these people enough

I'll send in you Feyd... they'll cheer you

as a rescuer... lovely Feyd... really a

lovely boy.

(suddenly he smiles and screams)

Where's my doctor?

148. INT. HARKONNEN SHIP - NIGHT

As Rabban leaves, he looks into one room of the

ship. Behind the glass porthole sits Thufir Hawat

bound head and foot, his eyes darting this way and

that.

148A. EXT. ROCK - DESERT - NIGHT

Paul and Jessica are in stillsuits. Paul is looking

through a Fremkit. He finds a paper with Dr. Yueh's

mark on it.

PAUL:

(inner voice)

Yueh's left the plans for the weirding

modules.

148B. EXT. MOONS - ARRAKEEN - DESERT - NIGHT

The moons have moved further across the sky.

148A. BACK TO SCENE

Suddenly Paul turns and studies his mother. A

stronger WIND comes up.

PAUL:

We have to get to that mountain of rock.

We have entered the time when all will

turn against us and seek our lives...

Jessica gets up. They make their way up the crest

of a dune by a small rock.

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